jimihendrix1
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Peruvian Seabird Guano
Both Veg/Flower formulas
Lime
Kelp
Bioactivtor.
Both Veg/Flower formulas
Lime
Kelp
Bioactivtor.
If you only had 5 ingredients...
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Richard Drysift
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Totally serious...maybe some dude wasn't using them correctly. It's true can't just push a solid piece of fertilizer into a healthy root ball. Yes of course it makes like a little "hot spot"; that's kind of the point. You push them in when you transplant to a large pot in an area roots haven't grown yet. I put 2 near the outside of each smart pot when I transplant to the final size pot just before the flip 180 degrees from each other. The roots take awhile before they envelope and find the spike and take what they need as needed. I definitely get larger flowers from the plants I have spiked. You don't need to buy jobes spikes either you could make your own organic fertilizer mix & just pour it in a hole made with a finger. The idea is to put it where roots are not yet growing and allow the plant to find it later on when it's needed.
I also add a layer of high N at the bottom of each pot when I build it in the form of composted chicken manure and bat guano. Once the roots grow down to reach it the plants stay nice & green through bloom phase to harvest with mostly just water only. I do give EWC tea maybe twice during flowering but that's it. I never saw a need to use spikes or layers in veg because I just pot up as needed.
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DonTesla
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Haha. Hell of a sarge
What was his nick name
Someone should name something kick ass cheatin mean after him
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@greasemonkeymann tell us more about this comfrey bro!
U are so pro comfrey I need to ask lol
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Btw, My five ATM are :
1. Wild, Young Coconuts, from Thailand ideally
2. Kelp meal from Celtic sea ideally (60 trace elements, 21 amino acids, plus your growth hormones)
3. Vermicomposted Bunny manure from my precious Edna, lol
(Contains mad fungal life, bacteria, all minerals including rare ones, boron, manganese etc)
4. Source of chitin or Orius Insidiousus aka the Minute Pirate bug (defense!)
5. Basalt rock dust
Sad to give neem, aloe, and fish bone meal the axe, but this would suffice and grow potent, flavourful, clean ass killers i bet!!
greasemonkeymann
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ah man, I LOVE comfrey, it's the best shit.
a nice even macro value, loaded with micros, calcium and magnesium, also since it's super even ratio of carbon and nitrogen it melts in the topsoil.
what I do is harvest the leaves (cut at the base, and DONT be shy, comfrey explodes new growth after trimming it)
get all the leaves lied on top of each other, fold in half, twist them up, and use sharp scissors to just "trim" lil thin cuts.
these are great underneath the topsoil, so I scrape away the topsoil (using good judgement, obviously gently and NOT damaging the top roots)
set aside the topsoil in a bucket or what not.
per container you are wanting to amend, take a cup of fresh compost (or fresh EWC) mix that compost or castings with the shredded comfrey
after that's mixed evenly apply a nice layer on top of your plants' container, then recover with the topsoil you scraped away.
The reason I like to bury the comfrey is because the sun rapidly bleaches it, turns it brown, and then it's leached of it's nutrients.
As much as I've been critical of veganic grows and it's concept..
I HAVE been tempted to do a veganic soil mix, using nothing but comfrey, kelp, nettes and alfalfa
Just for curiosity reasons, i'm not a subscriber of the concept.
I like worms, manure, fish stuff, crab stuff, shrimp stuff, bug stuff, etc...
far from veganic
But I digress.
Oh, and @Wetdog is the other fella that uses the bejesus out of comfrey
Richard Drysift
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Drill Sgt Gibson; actually was a sweet guy...sorta reminded me of a pissed off Danny glover. He used to call me lightening because I'm so fat and slow as in ....better get yer ass over that obstacle, lightening or you'll be pushing mud
DonBrennon
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I've took to freezing my comfrey in a plastic bag for a couple of days, to kill any bugs/eggs, do you think I'm losing any of the benefits doing this?
When I take the bag out of the freezer, it scrunches up nicely while still frozen and can then be topdressed or thrown in the worm bin.
Edit..........It's gonna stop growing soon too, is this the best way too store it?..............good job I only eat fresh food these days, I've got ice cubes in the freezer for 'me', everything else is for worms and plants, pmsl
DonBrennon
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Depends on your circumstances, Ya wanna get the bocking 14 cuttings if you can get them, they're sterile so do not seed. The non-sterile variety is very invasive (and considered a weed by some?????????), so if you're planting it in your garden, go for the cuttings.
Having said all that, mine are both cuttings from the wild and grown from seed, but they're in places where they either can't spread(raised beds) or I don't care if they do
well said, if we dont alter the stablished watering frequency, roots will easily crash into our top dress mountains. Its scary the high caliber that adventicious roots shows us right?
D port Growth
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1. Home Farmed Earthworm Castings (more diverse nutrients via selective feeding) this also includes predator mites and springtails which thrive in worm farms naturally.
2. Bokashi + (Elevation Organics Brand Lactobacillus AKA Bokashi infused Alfalfa meal, Biochar and Barley meal with additional Mychorrhizal Fungi and Bacillus bacteria strains)
3. Kelp Meal (trace minerals, growth hormones and a bioactivator)
4. Buffaloam Soil Alive (Buffalo compost with Mycorrhizae, Bacillus strains and traces of rock phosphate
5. Aloe Vera (Sugars polysaccharides Carbs and Cloning)
I would add some Seed sprout teas or Coconut water but there only room for 5 so there's mine.
2. Bokashi + (Elevation Organics Brand Lactobacillus AKA Bokashi infused Alfalfa meal, Biochar and Barley meal with additional Mychorrhizal Fungi and Bacillus bacteria strains)
3. Kelp Meal (trace minerals, growth hormones and a bioactivator)
4. Buffaloam Soil Alive (Buffalo compost with Mycorrhizae, Bacillus strains and traces of rock phosphate
5. Aloe Vera (Sugars polysaccharides Carbs and Cloning)
I would add some Seed sprout teas or Coconut water but there only room for 5 so there's mine.
Rob Roy
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Good list. Rabbit shit is THE shit.